In this lesson of the WordPress theme tutorial for beginners we will learn about hooks in WordPress and add a few hooks in our theme that is required for a theme to work properly with WordPress and plugins. We will also start accessing dynamic content from WordPress in our header, such as automatically getting the current page title.
In this guide we'll look at two methods of querying posts in WordPress (get_posts and WP_Query), how to access each post and build arguments.
This lesson will teach you how to structure the main building templates in a WordPress theme. We will start creating the most important templates.
This post goes into detail with code examples of how to add scripts and styles to WordPress the correct way, both files and outputting variables.
In this lesson you will start learning how WordPress loads content depending on which page you're at, and the hierarchy of theme template files. You will also learn what's needed for a valid theme. And at the end we will finally create our theme and activate it.
Step 0.5 in WordPress theme tutorial for beginners covers how to set up a local development environment with WAMP or XAMPP and install WordPress.
A 12 lesson tutorial series covering the basics of developing a WordPress theme from scratch. Perfect for beginners who want to become a theme developer!
In this guide for beginners we'll learn what WordPress hooks and filters are, how they work and how to use them.
